Dozens of tourists were injured Friday when their sightseeing bus veered off a road and tipped over, falling several meters before landing in a field in Shimizu, Hokkaido, local firefighters said. Police sources said 48 of the 49 people aboard were taken to hospitals after ...
A U.S. MV-22 Osprey took part Friday in a joint exercise in Hokkaido between the Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps. The tilt-rotor transport aircraft joined the exercise amid local opposition spurred by the central government's decision to retract its request for the ...
Sub-Cabinet-level officials of Japan and Russia agreed on Thursday to aim for reaching at a bilateral summit early next month a final accord on joint economic activities on and around four Northwestern Pacific islands at the center of the two nations' longstanding territorial row. The ...
The Defense Ministry on Friday said it would continue to let Ospreys fly in Japan after receiving U.S. assurances the tilt-rotor aircraft is safe despite last week's fatal MV-22 crash off Australia. The U.S. Marine Corps MV-22, which was based in Okinawa, crashed on Saturday ...
The industry ministry on Wednesday erroneously sent an email to at least 2 million mobile phone users in Hokkaido asking them to conserve electricity due to power shortages. In reality, there was no power shortage. The ministry said it mistakenly sent a test message meant ...
The Hokkaido Prefectural Police ask the public for tips on a young Chinese woman who vanished while traveling in the prefecture.
In a few years, robotic farming equipment will be able to plow and prepare soil while human farmers sleep. That is what Hokkaido University professor Noboru Noguchi and his team are aiming for as the nation's farmers age, with no successors in place. The improved use ...
With its basic recommendations for operating integrated resort casinos now complete, the central government will hold public hearings across the country this month to explain the requirements and the policies to address problem gambling and concerns about money laundering. While local government officials from Hokkaido ...
Japan and the United States are considering operating the U.S. military's Osprey aircraft at night as part of an upcoming joint exercise planned in Hokkaido, an official of the Ground Self-Defense Force said Wednesday. The exercise involving GSDF members and U.S. Marines is planned between ...
An skull stolen from a Hokkaido grave by a German national in 1879 has been returned to Ainu representatives by a German research group. It is the first time that bone remains from the Ainu ethnic minority, who live mostly in Hokkaido, have been repatriated ...
The launch of what would have been Japan's first privately developed rocket to reach outer space failed Sunday off Hokkaido after telemetry was lost, forcing it to be aborted, the Hokkaido-based developer said. Officials from Interstellar Technologies Inc., founded by former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi ...
Hokkaido Prefecture announced that a man in his 70s in the southern part of the prefecture died from tick-borne encephalitis, the third case of tick virus infection in Japan and the second death. The prefecture's public health division said Tuesday that the man became sick ...
